Ireland

Edward Despard, Irish republican, executed for attempted overthrow of British Crown

Arthur Guinness, brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery, dies

Arthur Guinness (1724 or 1725 - 23 January 1803) At 27, in 1752, Guinnesss godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £ 100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000 year lease on the 4 - acre (16,000 m2) brewery at St. Jamess Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45.

Sir Dominic Corrigan, cardiologist, is born in Dublin

Sir Dominic John Corrigan, 1st Baronet (2 December 1802 – 1 February 1880), the renowned Irish physician and cardiologist, was born on December 1, 1802, in Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Birth of novelist Lady Rosina Lytton, née Wheeler, in Co. Limerick

Writer and geologist Hugh Miller born on the Black Isle, Cromarty.

The Edinburgh Review first published.

The first issue of The Edinburgh Review is published with the mission to “erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics.”

Daniel OConnell secretly marries his cousin, Mary OConnell

Robert Patterson, naturalist, is born in Belfast

Robert Patterson, FRS (1802–1872) was an Irish businessman and naturalist born in Belfast, Ireland.

James Moore ODonell, former MP for Ratoath, is killed in a duel with Major Denis Bingham in a feud over Co. Mayo politics

Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquis of Downshire, former MP for Co. Down and one of the wealthiest landowners in Ireland, commits suicide